Bicycle Obstacle Course, Americorp STEM in a Bag

Create a bicycle obstacle course. Activity from Weekly STEM in a Bag. . Colorado Americorp agents in Araphahoe, Denver, Garfield, Larimer, and Weld Counties. Work supported by the Corporation for National and Community Service under Americorps grant number 18AFHCO0010008. Opinions or points of view expressed in this lesson are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of or a position that is endorsed by the Corporation or the Americorps program. This resource is also available in Spanish in the linked file.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Lesson Plan

Central City, CO Mining Town

Central City, CO Mining Town. Western Mining History presents a brief summary of Colorado's Historical Mining Towns with links to additional Colorado resources for a mining town database and mines by county. Western Mining History is an historical site that provides information on mining, mining towns, the gold and silver rush, and Photos and maps of the western United States. This is a strong primary source resource that can be used for a variety of class research projects. Consider becoming a member or making a donation to help further the work of the site.

Material Type: Data Set, Primary Source, Reading

Best Practices for Using Technology with Multilingual Families Toolkit (Spanish)

Este conjunto de herramientas está diseñado para ayudar a las Agencias Educativas Locales (LEA, por sus siglas en inglés) a crear y mantener estrategias efectivas con las familias multilingües. Exploramos y modelamos las mejores prácticas para el uso de la tecnología en la enseñanza, así como para evaluar y comunicarnos con adultos diversos. La siguiente guía es aplicable para la instrucción presencial, combinada y en línea, y también puede servir como un conjunto de herramientas para tal efecto.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

The California Gold Rush

Western Mining History presents a short history of the Harmony Borax Works in Death Valley, California. Western Mining History is an historical site that provides databases, information on mining, mining towns, gold and Photos and maps of the western United States. Consider becoming a member or making a donation to help further the work of the site.

Material Type: Primary Source, Reading

Introduction to Psychology

Comprehensive coverage of core concepts grounded in both classic studies and current and emerging research, including coverage of the DSM-5 in discussions of psychological disorders. Incorporates discussions that reflect the diversity within the discipline, as well as the diversity of cultures and communities across the globe.

Material Type: Full Course, Textbook

Antioxidant Enzymes: Three or Four Veggies a Day Keeps Aging Away

The purpose of this video lesson is to expand the student's knowledge about enzymes by introducing the antioxidant enzymes that are intimately involved in the prevention of cellular damage and eventual slowing of the aging process and prevention of several diseases. Students will learn that natural antioxidant enzymes are manufactured in the body and provide an important defense against free radicals. The topic of free radical action is introduced, covering how they are constantly generated in living cells both by ''accidents of chemistry'' and also by specific metabolic processes.

Material Type: Lecture

Animal Tracks Can Illuminate Many Things: A Detective Exercise

Having students follow animal tracks (even just people, dogs, or squirrels) and investigating how tracks are made is a fun and exciting way to develop critical thinking, measurement, and graphing skills.

Material Type: Lesson

Acordeón de Serpientes, Americorp Bolsa de STEM

Haz una artesanía de acordeón de serpiente. Agentes de Colorado Americorp en los condados de Araphahoe, Denver, Garfield, Larimer y Weld. Trabajo apoyado por la Corporación para el Servicio Nacional y Comunitario bajo el número de subvención 18AFHCO0010008 de Americorps. Las opiniones o puntos de vista expresados en esta lección pertenecen a los autores y no representan necesariamente la posición oficial o una posición respaldada por la Corporación o el programa Americorps.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Get Into Stocks - No-Frills Money Skills Video Series, Episode 3

Get Into Stocks is the third video in the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis series, No-Frills Money Skills. Through the story of a local ice-cream cart owner trying to expand her business, students learn about the process by which companies become publicly owned and traded by issuing stock. Students learn key terms, such as capital gains and dividends, and discover how the prices of stocks are affected by how successful a company is in its respective industry.

Material Type: Lecture

Bankruptcy Basics

Students learn that bankruptcy is a federal court proceeding designed to help individuals address debt problems and to provide fair treatment to creditors. They learn the six different types of bankruptcy; however, the lesson focuses on the two types of bankruptcies used mostly by consumers: Chapter 7 and Chapter 13. They analyze bankruptcy terms and learn the similarities and differences between Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 procedures. They also participate in an activity that requires them to work collaboratively to match a bankruptcy step with its correct description. As an assessment, they review scenarios and suggest the best bankruptcy option. This lesson assumes that students are familiar with credit, uses of credit, types of credit, and basic credit terminology.

Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan

Author: Vicki Fuhrhop

Multiples and Common Multiples

This problem uses the same numbers and asks similar mathematical questions as "6.NS The Florist Shop," but that task requires students to apply the concepts of multiples and common multiples in a context.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Illustrative Mathematics

High Impact Instructional Strategies: Visual Arts

I am very proud to present standards-based instructional resources for Visual Arts. The model lesson is a set of full lesson materials developed to train content area teachers at the 2016 All Students, All Standards Instructional Strategies Summer Institute. The additional sample lesson resources represent the work of a team of Colorado educators to share how they develop their own unique standards based lessons that employ high impact instructional strategies. As examples, they are intended to provide support (or conversation/creation starting points) for teachers, schools, and districts as they make their own local decisions around the best instructional plans and practices for all students.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Biomass - Creating Bio-Diesel

This detailed chemistry lesson from the U.S. Department of Energy focuses on transforming vegetable oil into biodiesel through a process of transesterification. The process described offers a good model for many chemical reaction processes that are used to produce a viable product.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Matthew A. Brown, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Raymond I. Quintana

AI in Practice: Applying AI

Learn about the implementation and practical aspects of Artificial Intelligence and how to write a plan for applying AI in your own organization in a step-by-step manner. This course is not about difficult algorithms and complex programming; it is a course for anyone interested in learning how to integrate AI into their own organization. To understand how current Artificial Intelligence applications can be successfully integrated in organizations, we look at different examples. For instance, how ING uses reinforcement learning for personalized dialog management with its customers or how Radboud UMC uses diagnostic image analysis to discover early stages of infectious diseases. As part of our two-course program ‘AI in Practice’, this course will guide you in the practical aspects of applying AI in your own organization. You will examine typical applications of AI in use already and learn from their experience. These include challenges of implementation, lifecycle aspects, as well as the maintenance and management of AI applications. The course presents a variety of case studies from actual situations in public organizations and private enterprises in the healthcare, financial, retail and telecommunications sectors. These include Radboud UMC, the Municipality of Amsterdam, ING, Ahold Delhaize and KPN. ‘AI in Practice – Applying AI’ gives you the ammunition to understand the practical aspects required for the implementation of a variety of AI applications in your organization.

Material Type: Full Course

Authors: Arie van Deursen, Bram van Ginneken, Floris Bex, Marleen Huysman, Sennay Ghebreab

AI in Practice: Preparing for AI

This course, AI in Practice: Preparing for AI, is the 1st course of the online education program AI in Practice. The course gives you a kaleidoscope of examples of applications of AI in various organizations, outlines the state of the art in modern AI research, and provides practical tools for integrating AI into your own organization. The program AI in Practice is built from two initial courses, AI in Practice: Preparing for AI and AI in Practice: Applying AI. The AI in Practice: Preparing for AI course is designed for people who want to apply AI in their own practical situation. For the experienced manager who wants to know what AI can do for her own organization. For the data analyst or business consultant who wants to understand how AI can be applied in the business processes of the company for which they work. For the student who wants to understand how the results of AI research can be translated into practical applications.

Material Type: Full Course

Authors: Arie van Deursen, Hennie Huijgens

Artificial Intelligence

This is the GitHub repository for course CMP 414/765: Artificial Intelligence taught at The City University of New York, Lehman College, in Fall 2022

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Artificial Intelligence and Librarianship

Courses on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Librarianship in ALA-accredited Masters of Library and Information (MLIS) degrees are rare. We have all been surprised by ChatGPT and similar Large Language Models. Generative AI is an important new area for librarianship. It is also developing so rapidly that no one can really keep up. Those trying to produce AI courses for the MLIS degree need all the help they can get. This book is a gesture of support. It consists of about 95,000 words on the topic, with a 3-400 item bibliography.

Material Type: Reading, Textbook

Author: Martin Frické

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

9. Brave New World - AI/ML The trifecta of globalization, urbanization and digitization have created new opportunities and challenges across our nation, cities, boroughs and urban centers. Cities are in a unique position at the center of commerce and technology becoming hubs for innovation and practical application of emerging technology. In this rapidly changing 24/7 digitized world, city governments worldwide are leveraging innovation and technology to become more effective, efficient, transparent and to be able to better plan for and anticipate the needs of its citizens, businesses and community organizations. This class will provide the framework for how cities and communities can become smarter and more accessible with technology and more connected.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Rhonda S. Binda

Artificial Intelligence in Libraries and Publishing

What is the current state of artificial intelligence (AI) in the world of scholarly communication? What impact does AI have on the practices and strategies of publishers, libraries, information technology companies, and researchers? What exactly is AI and what are those in the realm of scholarly communication actually thinking about it and doing with it? This Charleston Briefing seeks to provide some answers to these very important questions, offering both general essays on AI and more specific essays on AI in scholarly publishing, academic libraries, and AI in information discovery and knowledge building. The essays will help publishers, librarians, and researchers better understand the actual impact of AI on libraries and publishing so that they can respond to the potentially transformative impact of AI in a measured and knowledgeable manner. "Charleston Briefings: Trending Topics for Information Professionals" is a thought-provoking series of brief books concerning innovation in the sphere of libraries, publishing, and technology in scholarly communication. The briefings, growing out of the vital conversations characteristic of the Charleston Conference and Against the Grain, will offer valuable insights into the trends shaping our professional lives and the institutions in which we work.

Material Type: Reading

Authors: Amy Brand, Catherine Nicole Coleman, Daniel W. Hook, Haris Dindo, James W. Weis, Michael A. Keller, Ruggero Gramatica, Simon J. Porter, Todd A. Carpenter

Automated Software Testing: Advanced Skills for Java Developers

Software testing gets a bad rap for being difficult, time-consuming, redundant, and above all – boring. But in fact, it is a proven way to ensure that your software will work flawlessly and can meet release schedules. In a two-course series, we will teach you automated software testing in an inspiring way. We will show you that testing is not as daunting a task as you might think, and how automated testing will make you a better developer who programs excellent software. This second course builds upon the first course’s material. It covers more advanced tools and techniques and their applications, now utilizing more than just JUnit. Key topics include Test-Driven Development, state-based and web testing, combinatorial testing, mutation testing, static analysis tools, and property-based testing. This is a highly practical course. Throughout the lessons, you will test various programs by means of different techniques. By the end, you will be able to choose the best testing strategies for different projects.

Material Type: Full Course